Behavioral scale reliability and measurement invariance evaluation using latent variable modeling

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 299-331

  Raykov, Tenko ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROSIS; POPULATION MODEL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 3042637386     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7894(04)80041-8     Document Type: Article

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